POL200Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Good Life, Aristocracy, Jerusalem In Christianity
23 Mar 2017
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Please read the following from aristotle"s politics: book i; book ii, chs. Incomplete: all associations aim at the particular good of the association it is (student association would aim for the benefit of the students) Impossible to understand the purpose (end/ telos) of an association without a good polis. If we combine these things together, married couples and masters and slaves, we get households, the community naturally consisted to satisfy everyday needs: the end is the satisfaction of daily needs. If we combine households together, we get a village, also made up of prior associations with particular ends, village is also an association with an end (telos) which is the satisfaction of non-daily needs. The household may have come before the polis, but it doesn"t represent the whole. Also claims that a city exists prior by nature (prior to the household and the village)
